Whiffletree-clip



(No Model.)

B. E. HARPER.

V WHIFFLETBBE CLIP.

No. 288,796. Patented Nov. 20, 1883.

INVENTOR WITNESSES:

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RICHARD E. HARPER, OF BUTLER, MISSOURI.

WHIFFLETREE-CLIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,796, dated November 20, 1883.

Application filed August 17, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it nwgz concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD E. HARPER, of Butler, in the county of Bates and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Whiffletree-Clips; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a planview, and Fig. 2 a section on line a: a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan of the clip, and Fig. 4 a section thereof on line y y of Fig. 3.

My invention relates to improvements in whiflletree-clips; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth ,and pointed out in the claims.

In the accomp auying drawings, a represents a double-tree, preferably made oval on the rear edge of its back face, near its-end, which gives it a better appearance than if a square edge were there formed, and better conforms with the curvature of the clip, hereinafter described.

12 represents the improved clip, which consists of a brace or plate, 0, preferably inserted in a mortise made longitudinally in the wood of the double tree is reduced in width, and its upper end is enlarged at e, and provided with a hole, h, for the passage of a bolt, Z, which also passes through the central hole in the whiffletree w, and thence through the middle hole, in, in the brace c, thence through the double-tree and through the hole a in the clip b, thereby securely attaching the clip to the doubletree. The bolt Z is threaded at its lower end, and provided with a nut, 0, to se= cure it in place. The upper end of the clip 1) projects sufficiently above the upper face of the double-tree to allow of the easy insertion of the whiffietree between the clip and the upper face of the double-tree.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The whiffl'etree-clip Z1, consisting of the longitudinal brace-plate c and transverse plate (I, bent first Vertically downwardly, then hori zontally, then curved upwardly, and theii horizontally over the plate 0 to its line of attachment with the latter, and provided with holes for the passage of the bolt Z, as set forth.

2. The combination, with the double-tree a and whifiletree w, of the clip I), composed of the brace-plate c, bolted to the end of the double-tree a, plate (I, cast in one piece therewith, and passing once around the doubletree, and threaded boltl, substantially as shown and described;

RIC-HARD E. HARPER.

Witnesses:

N. B. MEEK, J. H. SISSON. 

